The World Champion

The World Champion (2021)

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Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.

Date of release
2021-12-30
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (40)
Runtime
2h 25m
Genres
Drama
Director
Alexey Sidorov

Casting

  • Konstantin Khabenskiy — Korchnoi
  • Ivan Yankovsky — Karpov
  • Vladimir Vdovichenkov — Gradov
  • Victor Dobronravov — Sergey Maksimov
  • Viktor Sukhorukov — Viktor Baturinskiy
  • Diana Pozharskaya — Veronika
  • Anatoly Kot — Igor Zaytsev
  • Mikhail Troynik — Yuriy Balashov
  • Aleksandr Filippenko — Leonid Brezhnev
  • Larisa Shakhvorostova — Karpov's mother
  • Anton Bogdanov — Vasiliy Brykin
  • Dmitriy Miller — Sevastyanov

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